Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination

by Nicholas Grene

Book Overview

The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relations of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heoric endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333668642
• ISBN13: 9780333668641
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"